Jazz Articles about Cecile McLorin Salvant

Cecile McLorin Salvant At Richardson Auditorium

by Elizabeth Millar
October 30, 2024

Cécilee Mclorin Salvant Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University The Book of Ayers Princeton, NJOctober 7, 2024 Eclectic composer, vocalist, visual artist and Grammy award nominee Cecile Mclorin Salvant returned to Princeton University's Richardson Auditorium a year after she and pianist Sullivan Fortner had participated in the Performances Up Close series, when they presented a brand new work inspired by the late Princeton University professor Toni Morrison. It was “The Book ...

Cécile McLorin Salvant at Skopje Jazz Festival

by Nenad Georgievski
October 26, 2024

Cécile McLorin SalvantSkopje Jazz Festival Skopje, Macedonia October 17, 2024 Cécile McLorin Salvant, a vocalist celebrated as one of the finest talents in contemporary jazz, brought an air of enchantment to the opening night of the Skopje Jazz Festival. With her effortless blend of jazz, blues and theatrical storytelling, the Grammy-winning artist captivated the audience with a performance that was intimate yet grand in scope. Salvant's powerful voice, razor-sharp wit and impeccable stage presence turned ...

Cecile McLorin Salvant, Sainkho Namtchylak, The Hack-Poets Guild and more

by Cliff Furnald
May 24, 2024

Cecile McLorin Salvant at Slee Hall

by Frank Housh
February 16, 2024

Cecile McLorin Salvant Slee Hall at University of Buffalo Buffalo, NY February 9, 2024 The word is “trobairitz;" it refers to female troubadours of the Middle Ages who performed some of Western music's first secular songs (and the first composed by women) in the area south of the Loire Valley, what we now call Provence. As Cécile McLorin Salvant prowled the stage and charmed the crowd with stories of her childhood and songs ...

Ben Wendel: All One

by Claudio Bonomi
October 17, 2023

Classe 1976, canadese di nascita, cresciuto a Los Angeles e attualmente residente a Brooklyn (New York), Ben Wendel è considerato un astro nascente del jazz contemporaneo da diversi anni. Sassofonista e compositore, oltre ad essere stato nel 2001 tra i fondatori dei Kneebody, si è costruito negli anni una solida reputazione di solista e leader firmando ben sette album che hanno suscitato l'attenzione di pubblico e critica. Questo All One non fa eccezione. È stato concepito in tempi ...

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension

by Angelo Leonardi
September 25, 2023

Precursore nel 2009 (con l'innovativo Infernal Machines) del nuovo rinascimento orchestrale nel jazz, Darcy James Argue approda all'etichetta Nonesuch e pubblica il nuovo album in studio: un doppio CD realizzato con i consueti partner della Secret Society più l'aggiunta della cantante Cecile McLorin Salvant e della violinista Sara Caswell. A differenza degli ultimi due dischi, Dynamic Maximum Tension non è un'opera multimediale ma conserva la spinta visionaria animata dalla costante riflessione socio-politica. Spinta che si traduce in ...

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension

by Katchie Cartwright
September 3, 2023

Darcy James Argue's superb double-album Nonesuch debut offers compositions written throughout his career. He turns to twentieth-century thinkers for “ideas that can help us in the present, that we can reexamine and reconfigure for our own purposes." These include futurist designer Buckminster Fuller, cryptanalyst-computer scientist Alan Turing, composer-arranger Bob Brookmeyer, actress-screenwriter Mae West, trumpeter-mentor Laurie Frink, and musician-beyond-category Duke Ellington, among others. Like West, Argue seems to control his own path. He may not yet be the tycoon she was, ...